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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Excessive zeal; fanaticism.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Behavior as a zealot; excessive or undue zeal; fanaticism.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Something characteristic of a zealot; excessive zeal; fanaticism.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun excessive intolerance of opposing views

Etymologies

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zealot +‎ -ry

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